Stress, Plate Boundaries, and Faults

Type of stress that causes rocks to move apart and becomes thin in the middle is ____________.

• Compression

• Tension

• Shear

Type of stress that causes the middle of the rock to get thicker is called __________.

• Shear

• Tension

• Compression

Type of stress that causes the rock to slide past each other is called _________.

• Shear

• Tension

• Compression

Type of plate boundary that causes the lithospheric plates to be pulled apart

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

Type of plate boundary that causes the lithospheric plates to move towards each other

• Divergent

• Transform

• Convergent

Type of plate boundary that causes the lithospheric plates to move horizontally past each other

• Divergent

• Transform

• Compression

• Convergent

Continent to Continent

• none subduct, crust will rise up

• colder, older oceanic plate goes down

• ocean plate goes down

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Ocean to Ocean

• none subduct, crust will rise

• colder, older oceanic plate goes down

• ocean plate goes down

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Continent to Ocean

• none subduct, crust will rise

• colder, older oceanic plate goes down

• ocean plate goes down

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Hanging wall goes down footwall

• normal fault

• reverse fault

• strike slip fault